A47613:268
A summons to the grave, or, The necessity of a timely preparation for death…
A summons to the grave, or, The necessity of a timely preparation for death demonstrated in a sermon preached at the funeral of that most eminent and faithful servant of Jesus Christ Mr. John Norcot who departed this life March 24, 1675/6 / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed for Ben Harris, 1676
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. When you read of soul, as that which men cannot kill or destroy, is always intended this excellent part; ⟨p. 10⟩see Matth. 10. 28. Fear not them that kill the body but cannot kill the soul.
3. When you read of soul, as that which men cannot kill or destroy, is alwayes intended this excellent part; ⟨p. 10⟩see Matth. 10. 28. Fear not them that kill the body but cannot kill the soul.
4. Lastly, When you read of soul, as that which lives when the body dies, or is commended into the hands of God at death; you must always take it in those Scriptures for the same.
4. Lastly, When you read of soul, as that which lives when the body dies, or is commended into the hands of God at death; you must alwayes take it in those Scriptures for the same.
6. By soul sometimes is meant only the body distinct from the spirit or immortal part; see Josh. 10. 28, 37. And the king thereof he utterly destroyed, and all the souls that were therein; and they smote the king thereof and all the souls that were therein; and in this sense soul is to be taken in this place. But that I may proceed, a word to explain the other term, to wit, the hand of the grave. By hand, beloved, often in Scripture is meant power,